After flashing the SD card with the utility, I connected a USB mouse and keybaord, and a monitor with a HDMI-to-DVI connector. Powered the board and it booted up on the first try.In all, pretty painless. I then plugged the Pi into my router directly with an Ethernet cable.

After some initial exploring, I wanted to be able to remote into the Raspberry Pi over my network. Also, because I don't have a dedicated workspace right now, and the monitor was taking up living room space. It wasn't appreciated much connecting the Pi to the television.

I followed all the instructions and was able to get a vncserver up and running as far as I could tell.I downloaded TightVNC for my Windows 7 desktop and tried connecting with the Pi's IP address as suggested in the instruction, but received an error about the device actively rejecting the connection.More specifically...Error in TightVNC Viewer: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.The following IP address ports were tried with no luck.::1::2::5900